Comments on: Migrating My Email to Gmail http://www.chuckchat.com/gmail/2009/12/migrating-my-email-to-gmail/ A collection of short tips, tricks, and hints to help you be more effective with your Gmail account. Sat, 20 Aug 2011 06:43:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chuck Tomasi http://www.chuckchat.com/gmail/2009/12/migrating-my-email-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-34474 Chuck Tomasi Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:37:01 +0000 http://www.chuckchat.com/gmail/?p=281#comment-34474 Update: I found that Gmail had a hard time connecting to my Mercury accounts via POP if I had too many articles (>1000). This is because Gmail has a 15 second timeout on their POP account setup. Bad news since I have over 40,000 messages to move back to Google. What I did instead was create four "outbox" accounts (ex: outbox1, outbox2, ...) and put about 10 messages in each. Gmail had no problem connecting to those. Once that was done, I could move 1000-2000 messages in to each of the outboxes. Gmail would connect periodically and grab 200 messages at a time. With up to five outbox accounts, I could get roughly 1000 messages an hour. Aside from my ISP throttling me once in a while, things went pretty smooth. As an outbox would run low, I would copy another couple thousand from one of the IMAP mailboxes in to an outbox to keep Gmail going. Aside: Keeping a log of which messages/dates went to which outbox made it a little clearer since my visits to the "bank" were infrequent and non-sequential (by the time I figured this method out.) Update: I found that Gmail had a hard time connecting to my Mercury accounts via POP if I had too many articles (>1000). This is because Gmail has a 15 second timeout on their POP account setup. Bad news since I have over 40,000 messages to move back to Google.

What I did instead was create four “outbox” accounts (ex: outbox1, outbox2, …) and put about 10 messages in each. Gmail had no problem connecting to those. Once that was done, I could move 1000-2000 messages in to each of the outboxes. Gmail would connect periodically and grab 200 messages at a time. With up to five outbox accounts, I could get roughly 1000 messages an hour. Aside from my ISP throttling me once in a while, things went pretty smooth. As an outbox would run low, I would copy another couple thousand from one of the IMAP mailboxes in to an outbox to keep Gmail going.

Aside: Keeping a log of which messages/dates went to which outbox made it a little clearer since my visits to the “bank” were infrequent and non-sequential (by the time I figured this method out.)

]]> By: Ben Shoemate http://www.chuckchat.com/gmail/2009/12/migrating-my-email-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-34470 Ben Shoemate Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:30:28 +0000 http://www.chuckchat.com/gmail/?p=281#comment-34470 Your welcome, I'm glad the process worked for you. Your welcome, I’m glad the process worked for you.

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